nbd_get_version(3)

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version 1.25.8 · 18 versions
, in centos-stream 10

🌸 nbd_get_version(3) — LIBNBD manual page 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the LIBNBD manual — this page is literally about nbd_get_version(3), and it's lowkey the easiest way to find out what version of the library you're running. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

  • nbd_get_version — return the version of the library, periodt. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

        #include <libnbd.h>

        const char * nbd_get_version (
                       struct nbd_handle *h
                     );

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Return the version of libnbd. This is returned as a string in the form "major.minor.release" where each of major, minor and release is a small positive integer. For example:

            minor
              ↓
           "1.0.3"
            ↑   ↑
         major   release

Here's the version lore, fr fr:

  • major = 0 — The major number was 0 for the early experimental versions of libnbd where we still had an unstable API. 💀
  • major = 1 — The major number is 1 for the versions of libnbd with a long-term stable API and ABI. It is not anticipated that major will be any number other than 1. 👑
  • minor = 0, 2, ... (even) — The minor number is even for stable releases. 🌈
  • minor = 1, 3, ... (odd) — The minor number is odd for development versions. Note that new APIs added in a development version remain experimental and subject to change in that branch until they appear in a stable release. 🧚
  • release — The release number is incremented for each release along a particular branch. ⭐

💅 RETURN VALUE 💅

This call returns a statically allocated string, valid for the lifetime of the process or until libnbd is unloaded by dlclose(3). You must not try to free the string.

bestie, do not free it — it is not yours to free. 🙈

🔥 ERRORS 🔥

This function does not fail. 😌

The following parameters must not be NULL: "h". For more information see "Non-NULL parameters" in libnbd(3).

🫶 VERSION 🫶

This function first appeared in libnbd 1.0.

If you need to test if this function is available at compile time check if the following macro is defined:

        #define LIBNBD_HAVE_NBD_GET_VERSION 1

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Eric Blake
  • Richard W.M. Jones

Copyright Red Hat

🧚 LICENSE 🧚

Legal text, word-for-word, because licenses are not a vibe — they're a contract:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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